Bio

About me

Hi, I’m Claudia Balthazar, a writer from New York City!

In order to keep up with my passion for writing, I freelance for numerous publications, focusing mainly on Political and legal news. However, my favorite style of writing is poetry. You won’t find any of my poetry here though, as I like to perform spoken word at local NYC café’s, and occasionally out of town.

In 2013, I attended the New York Women in Communications Foundation’s Matrix Awards as a scholarship recipient and in that same year, I was selected to be a Rising Ailes Apprentice; later renamed the Fox News Apprentice Program.

I’m a Trailblazer

After graduating Hofstra University, I spent my summer as a Carnegie-Knight News21 Fellow, becoming the first Hofstra student to do so. There, I worked in the famous Walter Cronkite newsroom at Arizona State University, where my main focus was on gun violence in urban Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Gunwars – Photo by Brendon Quester

I fell in love with the dream of becoming a writer when I was 15 years old, looking at the glass as half full, and am the first child of my immediate family to finish college. I am probably the first to also eat a cockroach.

I’m a Dreamer

My writing ambitions were confirmed when I became the Editor-in-Chief of my high school newspaper, Hillcrest High Lighter. My high school superlative? Most Likely to run a Media Conglomerate.

Most importantly, I plan to stick with writing even in the toughest times. Furthermore, I want to travel the world, through the web, and definitely by foot, plane, bus and boat, with the hopes that even when I cannot live to tell the story, my writing can.